Tony Leys

Tony Leys, rural editor/correspondent, is based in Des Moines, where he worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for the Des Moines Register. Tony was the Register’s lead health care reporter for more than 20 years and served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Knight Science Journalism program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.